A Roman statue of the Greek goddess Athena reemerged in Chicago after almost three centuries after it was acquired from a ...

The head, carved during the reign of Emperor Augustus (31 BC-14 CE), has been ... 659 sets the stage for “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection,” a highly ...

With an owl in the palm of her hand, a cloak adorned with a gorgon’s head and a warrior’s helmet upon her swept hair, Athena, as depicted in a Roman statue from the first century C.E., is a remarkable ...

The Halsted A&A Foundation has acquired a 1st-century Roman statue of the ancient Greek goddess ... the head from one made during the reign of Augustus (31BCE-14CE), and the body created under ...

With artefacts on loan from the British Museum, this modest show reminds us of the astonishing heritage of a country now ...

I've been working as a tour guide in Rome since 2008, and it only seems to be getting more crowded with tourists. Instead, go ...

Authorities say the statue dates back to the Hellenistic period and are investigating how it ended up among garbage. It was ...

The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they may be somewhere else entirely. But one thing is certain: Archaeologists ...

As one of history's most famous figures, many stop to wonder what Cleopatra VII Philopator really looked like.

According to lore, she took her own life at 39 after losing her kingdom when Octavian (later Augustus ... in Egyptian art styles during the Ptolemaic dynasty, not Roman. The Roman period in ...

Archaeologists working at Emperor Nero’s grand palace in Rome, known as Domus Aurea, uncovered a rare and rather big Egyptian ...